President	Date	Official	Department
Ronald Reagan
	January 25, 1984	Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr.	Housing and Urban Development
	February 6, 1985	Secretary Malcolm Baldrige	Commerce
	February 4, 1986	Secretary John Block	Agriculture
	January 27, 1987	Secretary Richard Lyng	Agriculture
	January 25, 1988	Secretary Donald P. Hodel	Interior
George Bush
	*February 9, 1989	None
	January 31, 1990	Secretary Edward J. Derwinski	Veterans Affairs
	January 29, 1991	Secretary Manuel Lujan	Interior
	January 28, 1992	Secretary Ed Madigan	Agriculture
William J. Clinton
	*February 17, 1993	Secretary Bruce Babbitt	Interior
	January 25, 1994	Secretary Mike Epsy	Agriculture
	January 24, 1995	Secretary Federico Pena	Transportation
	January 23, 1996	Secretary Donna Shalala	Health and Human Services
	February 4, 1997	Secretary Dan Glickman	Agriculture
	January 27, 1998	Secretary Bill Daley	Commerce
	January 19, 1999	Secretary Andrew W. Cuomo	Housing and Urban Development
	January 27, 2000	Secretary Bill Richardson	Energy
George W. Bush
	*February 27, 2001	Secretary Anthony Principi	Veterans Affairs
	January 29, 2002	Secretary Gale Norton	Interior
	January 28, 2003	Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary Norman Mineta	Justice and Transportation
	January 20, 2004	Secretary Donald Evans	Commerce
	February 2, 2005	Secretary Donald Evans	Commerce
	January 31, 2006	Secretary Jim Nicholson	Veterans Affairs
	January 23, 2007	Attorney General Alberto Gonzales	Justice
	January 28, 2008	Secretary Dirk Kempthorne	Interior
Barack Obama
	*February 24, 2009	Attorney General Eric Holder	Justice
	January 27, 2010	Secretary Hillary Clinton and Secretary Shaun Donovan (Donovan was the "designated survivor," but Clinton is ranked higher in the presidential line of succession and would have assumed the presidency in the event of calamity.)	State & Housing and Urban Development
	January 25, 2011	Secretary Ken Salazar	Interior
	January 24, 2012	Secretary Tom Vilsack	Agriculture
	February 12, 2013	Secretary Steven Chu	Energy

Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Cabinet Members Who Did Not Attend the State of the Union Address." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2013. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_cabinet.php.